Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by RobertDeNiro » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:57 AM UTC

Does apple still reject third party apps that are too similar to existing first party apps?

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by edwellbrook » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:59 AM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #3

Where do you get the music from though?

At the moment it imports from the Music.app (so whatever you've synced with iTunes). Adding more providers in the next few months

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by taylodl » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 10:59 AM UTC

How does Doppler compare with Cesium? I've been using Cesium for the past couple of years and have been pretty happy, though like with any app improvements can be made. I agree with you the iTunes app is not good for simply playing music.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by edwellbrook » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC

minikites wrote: post #4

Have you considered adding support for Subsonic? http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp Manually choosing songs to load onto my phone is a significant chore and my phone can only fit a subset of my collection.

Haven't heard of Subsonic before. Will see what I can do. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by primitur » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC

I guess this is going to be a much better upgrade from my current non-Apple/-cloud music-player, VLC ..

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by edwellbrook » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC

evanb wrote: post #8

Does "Import your music and playlists" means it will use my synced iTunes library? I would love this. But I tried to click to find out more, only to find that almost nothing on that landing page is a link.

Yep that's right!

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by chrisseaton » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:01 AM UTC

edwellbrook wrote: post #12

chrisseaton wrote: post #3

Where do you get the music from though?

At the moment it imports from the Music.app (so whatever you've synced with iTunes). Adding more providers in the next few months

I didn't realise you could have standalone music files in the Music any more! I thought it was all streaming Apple Music now. I wouldn't even know where to get standalone music files from.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by pryelluw » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:01 AM UTC

luigi23 wrote: post #5

Supports your favourite speakers and headphones Doppler works with AirPods, HomePod and any Bluetooth or AirPlay enabled speaker But it doesn't require any setup - it comes out of the box. Or put it in another way - I don't see any music app that does not support that.

It's good marketing to outline the fact for a slight competitive advantage.

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by zakk » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC

I don't know if it is technically possible, but a polished, fast app for Apple Music is badly needed!

Re: Show HN: I wanted better offline music on the iPhone, so I made Doppler

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Post by martin-adams » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:04 AM UTC

ainiriand wrote: post #9

Like I always say when I see a music related app submission: Get a lawyer. It looks pretty awesome by the way, any plans for android?

I'm genuinely curious why you say to get a lawyer for all music apps as I can't really see why this one would necessarily need a lawyer. Are you talking in terms of music licensing issues or patent violations, or other?